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Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

Grape juice at the communion table symbolizes the historical impotence of Christ’s blood, Christ’s gospel, Christ’s church, and Christ’s expanding kingdom. Grape juice stays ‘bottled up’, confined to the historical skins of Palestine.

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

Historical and public memory is not merely on the side of domination.

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

History is a vast early warning system.

Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them; and so with wooden ploughs we continue to draw lonely furrows, most successfully when we strike sand.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery can be fast and intense.

History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men, or perhaps by only the most vocal men; it does not teach us whether the change was sound or whether the rejected view deserved to be rejected. Only an impartial analysis of the view in question, an analysis that is not dazzled by the victory or stunned by the defeat of the adherents of the view concerned - could teach us anything regarding the worth of the view and hence regarding the meaning of the historical change.

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan Greene has woven from these threads a riveting novel, erotic, haunting, and profoundly moving.

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.

History is rooted in the future

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,--i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.

However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of empire, has brought about the nightmare Malcolm predicted. And as the Digital Age and our post-literate society implant a terrifying historical amnesia, these crimes are erased as swiftly as they are committed.

Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false consciousness, but a rather consciousness of falsehood, a falsehood which is corrected in the context of the higher truth represented by the objective historical interest.